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An easily missed masterpiece...

My usual run along the River takes me West along the right bank, past the Louvre and the Grand Palais to the bridge that crosses from the...

Recipe: Dark chocolate and vanilla parfait, with caramelised pecans—a Valentine's Day treat!

Parfait is quite close to ice cream, but to call it ice cream does it a disservice (like calling a Concorde a passenger jet)—it is far...

To draw is to see...

I’ve been to the Louvre to do some drawing a few times now, when I have had some spare time. It is only a short walk from where I live...

Recipe: Thai winter soup [vegan]

This recipe started life as a curry in the offing, but then it was snowing outside and I thought what better than a really warming and...

Food and friends

An old friend was coming over for dinner, so I consulted my copy of Larousse Gastronomique—the veritable bible of cooking, which weighs...

Keeping the cold out

One of the lovely thing about living in Paris is that people don’t just turn to the supermarket to cater for their every need, you can...

Recipe: Chicken Kievs—succulent chicken, oozing herby, garlicky butter with a fabulously crunchy coa

For many 'Chicken Kiev' brings back memories of childhood, of lovely herby butter oozing across the plate. But for many, this simple dish...

Snow had fallen, snow on snow

Today it snowed. Thick downy flakes came down steadily and swirled through the streets, eddying in the wind. I took a walk around the Ile...

No amount of garlic is too much garlic!

This morning to yoga in the village of Bouteille. In the afternoon, Pinky took us kayaking down a small river, only navigable at this...

Recipe: Hung Shao style pork [easy]

Many cheaper cuts of meat are wrongfully neglected in our cooking because they tend to regarded as unpleasantly fatty or difficult to...

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